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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
4 PRETTY STORY.
Maidenly Ingenuity Outwitted -Fatheriy
Solicitude Once Again.


There was Onc a tailor who had a beau
tiful daughter. All the young men from
far and near came 10 visit her because Of
her beauty. Two rivals sought her one day
and said:
1T is on your account that we have come
hither."
1--WE love yon," returned the two young
men land each of us wishes TO marry you"
The maiden, being well brought
mp, called her father, who listened
to the two lovers, and then said:
at is late; go home now, but come again
tomorrow, and you shall then know which
Of you may have my daughter"
At daybreak the next morning the two
young men returned. "Here we arer'
they cried to the tailor remember what
you promised yesterday"
Wait a little" he replied; II am going
to town to buy a piece OF cloth; when I re-
turn home with it you shall learn what ]
expect from you"
When the tailor returned from town, he
called his daughter, and on her appearance;
he said TO the Young men:
"My children, there are two Of you, and
l have but one daughter. To whom shall
| give her? Whom must / refuse? Be
hold this piece OF cloth; ] will cut from Il
two suits Of clothes exactly alike; each one
of you must sew one of them; he who
finishes his task Arst shall have my dau-
ghter."
Each Of the rivals took mis- task and pre-
pared TO set about it; the father called his
daughter and said TO her:
Here is the thread, make IL ready for
the two workers"
The maiden obeyed her father. and tax
ing the bundle Of thread, seated herself
near the younger man.
But she was as clever a she was beauti-
fnl; though her father did not know which
Of the two she loved, nor the young men
themselves, she knew well enough. The
tailor went away, the maiden prepared the
thread, the young men took their needles
and began 10 sew. To the one she loved
the beauty gave short needlefuls, but TO
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

o. NELL, the New York Doodle Alder
man, has just been sentenced to four and one
half years in prison at hard labor, but says:
81 never did a wrong in my life, that ! am
conscious of lam not guilty of bribery
or any other crime" It's sad that n 50
immaculate should come to such grief.
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THE OHIO BUREAU OF LABOR
STATISTICS,

The OHiO Bl kEAl Or LABOk
STATISTICS,
The tenth annual report of the Ohio
Bureau of Labor Statistics contains some
facts interesting to both Ohioans and
West Virginians.
One table gives the earnings and eX-
penditures of 355 families. II shows that
their total income was $2O1, 6S7.2s, or
S56S.l3 per family; expenditure, $l64,-
Ol9.I9, or $i62.O2 :, per family, the excess
of earnings above expenditures being
81, co.. -, or an average per family Of
$lO6.11: they contain l,6S5 persons; aver
aye per family, IA; occupy LAB rooms,
OF an average Of L9I.
The average wages earned By the fami-
lies of the trades giveH are as follows
Blaeksmiths, $359.54; brieklayers, $6is.71,
bOOkkeePers, S74i.3O; eOOpers, 1892; car
penters, S5l9.iS; cabinet-makeIS, $685. 40;
cigar-makers, $457.26; engineers, $685.;
foremen, 81, lO9.75; glaSsblowers, $sO9.4T;
iron and steel workers S765.36; laborers,
$369T5; mOlderS, S71l.S7, maehinists,
SGil.G5; miners, S3S9.65; pattern makers,
$697. 81; printers, $Sl6.4O; p~otters, $546.33;
painters, $i69.66; railroad employees,
$622.39; shOemakers, SI11.16; and wood
workers, $62S.5O.
The report shows that there are about
$1,000, 600 expended annually for the
several benevolent and charitable institu-
tons Of the State, or about . dollar for
every man, woman and child in the State.
The expenses in some eases are extra
ordinary. In one case it amounts to
nearly So cents per day and the average
for all these amounts to 394 cents. For
the purpose Of comparison, the Commits
sioner has brought into contact with these
institutions the result obtained from 255
budgets of ~wOrkingmen's families and the
results obtained from these Institutions
and the budgets Of last year, which pro-
duce the following result; Public institu-
tons, per capita cost for year 1885, S14495;
Der day, 80 71-1OO cents. For year 1886,
$144.s9; per day 81 $500 cents; de
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Most Excellent.

J.. J. Atkins, Chief of Police, Knoxville,
Tenn, writes: my family and are ben.
eficianes Of your most excellent medicine.
DIR. Kings new discovery for consumption,
having found it to he all that you claim
for it, desire to testify to t. virtue. The
friends to whom | have recommended il
praise it at every opportunity"
DR.. Kings New Discovery for C0nsnnp-
ton is guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Group, and every az
lection of Throat, Chest, and Lungs.
Trial Bottles free at Logan & Co.'s Drug
Store. Large Size 81.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

A man who has practieed medicine for 40
years ought 10 know salt from sugar;
read what he SlyS:
TOLEDO, o., Jan. 10, 1887.
MeSsrs. =. J. Cheney 4 Co.-Gentle-
men:-l have been In the general practice
o fmediclne for most forty years, and would
say that in all my pHtiee and experience,
have never seen = preparation that l could
prescribe with rs much confidence Of sac
cess as / can Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by you. Have prescribed it 4
great many times and its effect is wonder
full, and would say in conclusion that l
have vet to find a case of Catarrh that it
would not cure, if they would take it ac-
cording to directions.
Yours truly,
l. L. G0RSUCH, NJ. D.,
Office, 2i5 SummitSt.
We will give 500 for any case of Catarrh
that can not be cured with Halls Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally.
+. J. CHENEY &C0., Props, Teledo, D.
parSold by Druggists, IS cts. Laugh
lin Bros. Drug Company, Agents for Wheel
ing.
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He Was Speaking of His Customers,

'iYer car bet yer sweet life that / don't
work for my l"ivin'," remarked a fiashily
dressed man with a big diamoned on his
scarf and a fur collar on his overcoat; Eyer
don't catch me workin' for no l~ivin'."
"NO, l keeps a saloon and has, hundred
or two fellers a-wOrkin' for me-"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

Two THOUSAND saloons in Ohio have
been closed BY the Dow law, since the peo-
pie have found out its meaning. And
then the sum brought into the State treas
ury is no small item.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

AFTER the 18th of March next, Mr.. REA-
GAN, Of Texas, will be the only farmer in
the United States Senate. The lawyers are
in q large plurality over all Others. Yet
there were in 1850 in this country 1890
600 farmers and but 1900 lawyers. Are
the lawyers the class most entitled to rep
reSentatiOn2
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

The great strike that has just ended has
resulted in the loss of s., 600, OOOin wages,
$500, 900 in foreign trade, and a loss OF
nearly 81, ZOO, 600 to employers. And
many men will be unable to regain their
positions. Where do the benefits com in?
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
These are Solid Facts.

The best blood purifier and system reg
ulator ever placed within the reach Of
suffering humanity, truly is Electric Bit
tiers. Inactivity Of the Liver, B~iliousness,
J~aundiee, Constipation. Weak Kidneys, or
any disease Of the urinary organs, or who
ever requires an appetizer, tonic or mild
stimulant, will always find Electric Bit
ters the best and only certain cure known.
They act surely and quickly, every bottle
guaranteed to give satisfaction or money
refunded. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by
Logan & Co.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
Piles Cured by Liebig Co.'s Arnieated

Piles Cured by Liebig Co.'s Arnicated
Extract of Witch Hazel. Professor E. NJ.
Hale, NJ. D., Ii. d., of the Chicago Med.
ical College, says: 1T has extraordinary
power over this disease" Professor Sid.
ney Ringer, of the University Medical Col.
lege, London, says: 81 have found it sin.
gularly successful" Beware of worthless
limitations. Alss cures Rheumatism, Ca.
tarrh, Neuralgia and Female Sufferings.
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catarrh L. Not . Hood Disess.'

No matter what parts it may hSa. ,Dd
feet, catarrh always starts in the 100
belong 10 the head. There Is DO 10y. il
about the origin Of this direfal d n tbe
begins in . neglected cold. oI !. . ~
kind that Is .'sure TO be betkf hos
dsys.n Thousands Of victims - Bsls
il Il by sad experience ElysCns n ~
cures colds in the bead and Gl 19
tn staeus. Not Q snuff or . bqus''
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
LITERARY L

The Amerieaa Antiquarian, Clinton.
Wis, begins its Ninth Volume with the
year 81. The january number has an In
teresting table of contents. The first pa
per treats OF the Indian and Puget Sound.
The second is an illustrated article on the
Villages and Clans found among the En-
blematic Mounds. The third describes
the Red Rock or the Sacriticial Stone
near st. Paul, under correspondence Of
the Relics Of the Iroquois, Mounds near
Lake Superior, Gold and Bronze Relics IN
Nicaragua, Serpent Symbolism, Quartz
Implements in Minnesota, and the pipe IN
shape of an Elephant Foot found in keB-
lucky are described, and a list Of books on
Native Myths is given. The editor speaks
of the Antiquity of Man, claiming that II
has been overStated. The Notes are inter
esting rs they give accounts of discoveries
and explorations.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

WHEN the Ohio river gets on a tear
it can beat the high water marks eircula-
ton of a New York newspaper, and not he
or swear about it, either.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
THE VETOED PENSION BILL.

The claim agents are all broken up over
President CLEyEIAND'S veto Of the De
pendent Pension bill, giving a pension to
every soldier unable to support himself.
About So, 400. OOO annually would be re-
quired TO meet its demands, and cOnSe-
q~uently it meant thousands for the claim
agents. No wonder they are displcaSed.
The soldier has done u great deal for this
country. So has the country done u good
deal in repaying him. 1t has paid him in
bounties and in pensions surprising any
nation the world has ever seen. Every
man who received injuries in the Govern
ment'S service is now reeOmpenSed by the
Government. The Presidents veto leaves
the pension list a roll OF honor instead OF a
Pauper list, rs the dependent pension bill
would have made it.
The President says in his veto message:
'I cannot believe that the vast peaceful
army Of Union soldiers who, having con-
tentedly resumed their places in the Ordin-
airy avOcatiOns OF life, cherish rs sacred the
memory of patriotic service, or who having
been disabled by the casualties Of war
justly regard the present pension roll, on
which appear their names - 4 roll OF
honor, desire at this time and in the pres
ent exigency to be COMPOUNDED with those
who, through such q bill rs this, are will
ling to be objects of simple charity and to
gain a place upon the pension roll through
alleged dependence
The last meeting of the Grand Army Of
the Republic said in a resolution that the
nation has been on the side of lavish
liberality' in pensions. When so large a
body Of veterans speak this way, they will
certainly approve ofthe Presidents action.
While the President will receive much
condemnation from certain classes, the
great body Of the people, men in both poll
cal parties, will heartily indOrse his action,
and will only find FAULT with him tor not
calling the halt at the Mexican pension
hill.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
EMPLOYMENT FOR CONvICrs.

EMPLOYMENT FOR COSNICrS.
The Legislature of Illinois has abolished
prison convict labor. This quiets the dis
satisfaction among the people of the State
with whom their labor came in contact.
But the Legislature has ''Only Jumped out
of the frying pan into the fire." What is
to he done with the many hundreds of con-
yicts thus made idle?
They cannpkpermit them to remain I'M
employed. That would he a great injury
to the c~onvictS and an unnecessary burden
upon the taxpayers.
We like the plan proposed to our LegiS-
latuIe of employing rs many of the o n
vIets as possible upon q farm, purchased for
the purpose, in raising provisions for the
Penitentiary and also for making cloth
ing, etc, for the inmates OF the Peniten-
tiary and Insane Asylum.
This would make = great saving of ex-
pense for the State and at the same time
90 far toward solving the convict problem.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

This is the table OF contents OF the Feb
ruary number fthe OreTlGRd Monthly (San
Franciseo). The Japanese Farming Class,
Shosuki SitO. Was 1t True? +. Nj. +. Deas.
The Training School for Nurses in San
Francisco, Mary ID. White. Down the
Ravine, Silvia Lawson Convey. The Fun
t~acoOset Colony, Leonard Kip. The Ripa-
rian Decision in Interior California, Il.
Marks. Chata aud Chiuita, LOuise Palmer
Haven. In the Apache Country, W. c.
Barnes. Tell Me, Dear Bird, L. L. Hig-
gins. A Modern Phase of American Travel,
W. +. Mappin. "reminiscences ofthe Plains
and Mines in 10 and 80, John 5. Hittell.
Cabinet Officers in Congress, Sydney IT,.
Fisher. Rosemary, John III. Craig.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13

The full holiday numbers Of Vide Awdke
this wear have overlooked into the Febru-
AIRY issue, for we find the opening story q
Christmas tale by Katherine Mcdowell
Rice, "Why the Dolls Name was Never
Changed" and another beautiful chapter
of The LOnglellow Literature Is gwen;
'LongfellOw and His Children" by the
poets brother, Rev. Samuel Longtellow.
Mrs. Fremont this month concludes her
be~witehing ''Taffy and Buster chronicles,
the gay little ponies bringing about 3d. 600
into the treasury OF the Sanitary Commits
sion. Only 24O q year. d. Lothrop u
Co, Publishers, Boston, Mass.
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February II 1851.

~ 49, - a
Tyca husband. and n dear one,
who's away,
HOp I wish. ne were n near one,
can't say,
MANY tears fell when h. started
For long weeks. wchave been parte,
That I'm lonely and faint-hearted;
Need say
And | love. all yeS, adOrr him,
Day and night
other men. hut pale before him.
In my sight
Yet he seldom writes n letter,
lie i now, my constant debtor
81. | caR't-but think il better
lie should write.
Than a vslcntinC-a letter,
Sweet and kind.
Would indeed, BE- vastly better
To my mind
Neither comes to end my signing;
Tan il Ia his love is dying2
Useless then. my bitter CRYING,
viii lind.
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Wrhtcn for the SSutidy Register.
BEFORE AND AFTER.

BY BESSIE HYNpMAN Loss.
february Il ISL.
I've a darling, handsome lover,
PARKWAY:
Round him, my affections hover;
Day by day.
For he saws he loves me truly:
And will ever love me duly;
Never. will ne prove unruly:
Meath my sway
oh. ne wrote the sweetest poem;
Ever seen:
And tho I am far below him,
Calls mt, Queen
For n valentiue-he sent Il,
And with love and hQPe, he blentit,
Certainly. 10 doubt, ReHlcant II:
Would be mean.
Hes a most devoted lover,
Truth To say.
And tho | would fain recover
HimrtO-day.
Vet he writes me many a letter.
Keeping me his constant debtor,
So | almost think il better,
He's away,
soon. however, We will marry,
lie and I;
Then. he SAYS. he'll always tarry,
where I'm nigh.
In no act, will he deceive me:
Naught ON earth. shall ever gricvc mo;
BY and by.
, 1887-03-19

There is no doubt that man can exist
on Il vegetable diet. He can obtain from
the plant world, digest and assimilate
these materials which are needful for the
repair of his W tissues. The arts con-
corned in the preparation of food will also
undoubtedly aid him in his conversion of
vegetable into animal equivalents and
will supplement his powers by shortening
considerably the period required for gas
trio digestion. Still, after all has been
said. it must be allowed that the labor of
the alimentary tract is better adjusted
and the formation of sound tissues more
assured, by the use of a mixed diet. If.
on the one hand, we assert the proved
value of hydrocarbons, but as sources of
energy in support of u use of vegeta-
blcs, we must also maintain that meat
which yields us most easily the forma-
tive and stimulant proteids can hardly DO
discarded. Our internal physical forma-
ton, which is intermediate between that
Of the carnivora and herbivora, should
a-trd at least a suggestive clew in our
choice of n die .-London Lancet.
, 1887-03-19

II is q misfortune for any girls face TO
have n mannish nose. The next timo
you are In an assemblage of maidens i'm
prove the opportunity to see how many
Of them are not pretty, but would be if
their noses were nicely feminine. l
wouldn't distress the hump nosed by
mentioning the subject were it not that
the days of their necessary oppression
are numbered. DIR. ]. is an eminent
physician. l desire to make that point
clear, so as TO avoid the suspicion that l
am foisting a humbug or an advertise
ment upon my readers. He is president
Of the high and professionally mighty
academy of medicine, which is a strictly
orthodox and conventional body. At
the last meeting over which he presided
another surgical mugwump, DIR. b., ex-
hibited a saw with which to improve
noses. Doctors forfeit their professional
standing and get turned out of their med
ical associations, you know, il they patent
or keep secret any discovery. So DIR. B.
divulged his instrument for reconstruct
ing nasal deformities. 1t was simply a
very fine, thin saw, SO fixed in a handle
that it could be inserted in the nose and
there operated. With it, he explained,
Nv SOuiu saw Oub pOIllOnS VI tue beptuul,
which is the gristle part of the nose, and
thus reduce the protuberance. OF course
his idea was to thus use it for the cure of
cases where tho malformation interfered
with the natural functions of the organ,
and he had operated with it successfully
in numerous instances. l asked him if
he wouldn't apply it for the mere sake Of
improving the shape.
II hardly think that would be profess
sional, " he answered.
but it would BIO PRACTICAL"
Undoubtedly"
"And no disfiguring scar would mark
the RESULT"
"Not.any."
Would you perform this operation if
you deemed it necessary as a prevention
of Madness
eyes"
"An right, then. Every girl with a big,
crooked nose will go crazy if refused an
operation that would transform her from
ugliness to beauty. Clara Bellies Letter.
, 1887-03-19
Rom. Viewed from n Housetop.

The p~leasantest thing in Rome, the
thing which no creature, however great
his power, has been able to touch, is the
sunshine. To live on q Roman housetop,
as do, is in itself a great happiness. 1t
once up? The roof is a terrace where
plants and ivy grow, and leaning over
the outer wall you can watch the busy
life far in the street below, or wait while
the day dies behind the Nous Janiculus.
The ragged pines that crown the hill
stand back against the sky, and one
knows that below is the old convent
where Tasso died. The statue of st.
Paul, on top of the pillar Of Marcus
Aurelius, is silhouetted very clear; and
nearer the black tower of st. Andrea del
Fate, where i'll the evening hundreds of
birds come to rest. The pigeons do not
stop there; instead they wheel and circle,
shining like silver, then settle down about
the fountain of Trevi-nestle close about
the water gods grouped there. 1t is
pleasant, too, to stand upon the bridges
and watch the passing crowd-to listen
to the ripple of the water and know the
voice is that of Father Tber; to take a
sun bath on the Pincio, with Rome lying
at your feet; to pause and watch the
orange sellers and match sellers, and
models, and beggars on the Spanish
steps; to journey to the Campo de Fivel;
to the fair OF Wednesday morning, where
all the old odds and ends of the continent
seem collected for sale. So much there
is to see in Rome; so much to do. Cor.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
, 1887-03-19
Boarding IA Man-of-War.

1--WE continue to have a great many
conventionalities in our naval and army
service, and TO cling to much of that
which is old and useless in teachings and
practices" said an old navy officer the
other day. 1--WE continue to instruct
IL naval cadets and marines in boarding
ships, continued he, ''when there is o
the least particle of sense OF utility in it.
1t is as senseless to talk about boarding
a modern man-of-war as it is to take a
trip to the moon. l remember that dur
ing n of the last engagements in Euro
pean waters a man-of-war belonging to
some country ran alongside a British YES
sci, and all hands were ordered to board
her, The crew got out on the Britisher,
but after pounding around with cut
lasses. axes, etc, were wholly unable to
enter the ship, and had to go back and
continue the fight at long range. We
will have to do u fighting with ships by
means of dynamite rams, steel projec-
tiles and the big guns. We have no use
for the barbarous side arms and other
relics of antiquity. New York Sun.
, 1887-03-19

| see. i'll a back number of st. Nicholas,
that one of your young correspondents
appeals partly to me in regard to birds
flying down. But all who have written
seem so well posted that l doubt if | can
add anything to their knowledge.
However. l have seen California quail,
n wood dove and a humming bird flying
downward: but in slow flyers, with
large wings and heavy bodies, the wings
are used more or less as parachutes in
going down; in other words. the birds
spread their wings and rely upon gravity.
This | have noticed in the sand hill
cranes in their migrations along the
Sierra Madres. A flock of say 100 will
mount upward in a beautiful spiral,
flashing in the sunlight, all the while
uttering loud, discordant notes, until
they attain an altitude of nearly a mile
above the sea level, Then they form in
regular lines, and soar away at an angle
that in five miles or so will bring them
within 1000 feet Of the earth. Then
they will stop and begin the spiral up
ward movement again until a high eleva-
ton is reached, when away they go
again. sliding down hill in the air, to-
ward their winter home. 1t is very evi-
dent that a vast amount of muscular
exertion is saved in this way. In some
of these slides that l have watched
through n glass. birds would pass from
three to four miles. | should judge, with
out Tapping the wings.-St. Nicholas.
, 1887-03-19

RUMoRs of changes in the management
of the Union Pacific railroad have pre-
vailed for several days, but remain still in
doubt. 1t seems to be certain that Cen
eral Manager Galloway has resigned. but
that he will retain the office of vice presi-
dent of the company, and that MIR. Kim
ball, general traffic manager, General
Superintendent Smith and Division Su
perintendent Dorrance have also resigned.
1t was reported yesterday that Assistant
General Superintendent Dickinson is to
take Smiths place, aud that Mr. deuel.
will be appointed superintendent Of the
eastern division, vice Dorrance, resigned.
A dispatch from Omaha, last evening,
says:
1t Is reported here, on information re-
ceived from Boston, that Gen. g. NJ
Dodge, of Council Bluffs, will be elected
at the annual meeting on the 2sth to sue
coed Charles Francis Adams as presi
dent
, 1887-03-19

The Rev. Jonathan Crossett, who for
years has been a missionary in
China. says that one section Of China is
still untouched by the m~issionaries- the
Mongols living to the north and west.
The Mongols go down 10 Lassa in Thibet
as to Il Mecca, and evidence a be found
among them of the teachings of the early
Christians. They are the most tenacious
US to their religion of any people whom
he had ever met. Their deity is called
Borhan. or Eight, and their belief
Lamaism-is founded upon tenets held
by all Christians. They observe one day
in every seven, and although they wor-
ship idols. they have ten commandments,
and their system of morals is very high.
New York sun.